Top 50 Enterprise Software Angel Investors in Germany in November 2024

Investor	Enterprise Software Germany investments
Michael Brehm	4
Hanno Renner	4
Johannes Reck	2
Sekip Can Gokalp	2
Torsten Reil	2
Michael Wax	2
Felix Jahn	2
Bastian Nominacher	2
Lars Hinrichs	2
Ameet Patel	1
Richard Socher	1
Patrick Andrae	1
Victor Jacobsson	1
Nicolas Dessaigne	1
Philipp Kloeckner	1
Mostafa Akbari-Hochberg	1
Christian Dahlen	1
D. Sculley	1
Luke de Oliveira	1
Constanze Buchheim	1
Chris Schagen	1
Andy Goldstein	1
Benjamin Rohe	1
Gary Hromadko	1
Georg Hofer	1
Florian Reike	1
Nelson Holzner	1
Janis Zech	1
Jan Dzulko	1
Dirk Hoke	1
Olivier Pomel	1
Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer	1
Ulrich Mueller-Menrad	1
Brad Flora	1
Matthias Hilpert	1
Ragnar Kruse	1
Torben Schreiter	1
Andreas Bodczek	1
Ali Kutay	1
Patrice Deckert	1
Heinz Raufer	1
Daniel Rubin	1
Klaus Hommels	1
Barrick B Rothschild	1
Frank Freund	1
Pehong Chen	1
Marc Rindermann	1
Mirko Novakovic	1
Jan Bohl	1
Tamaz Georgadze	1

Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
Atheneum — Powered by a network of 1,000,000+ experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.

After working as skipper of sailing yachts for many years next to his studies, Hanno decided to become the captain of a startup. He co-founded Personio in 2015 with three study colleagues with the goal of digitizing HR management and Recruiting processes for small and mid-sized enterprises. Having build and led several teams while the company grew,he now in the CEO role is responsible for aligning all functions of the business around the shares vision of building the category leading HR Operating System for SMEs in and providing all resources necessary to reach this goal. Hanno holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from TU Munich and CDTM, studying abroad at Columbia University in New York.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
zerolabs — zerolabs is an e-commerce platform that provides refreshing alcohol-free drinks and beverages.
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.

Johannes Reck is the Chief Executive Officer at GetYourGuide. He leads the company’s long-term vision and strategy.Johannes co-founded GetYourGuide in 2009 while attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and has grown the company into the leading booking platform for incredible travel experiences. Under Johannes’ leadership, over 30million tickets have been booked to date via the GetYourGuide website, mobile app, and partnership network. GetYourGuide has raised over $650M from investors such as the SoftBank Vision Fund, Battery Ventures and KKR. Johannes leads GetYourGuide’s 550-person global team from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Johannes originally hails from Cologne, Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RYDES — One app for your workforce to access all modes of urban transport
Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
NAVIT — One app for your workforce to access all modes of urban transport

Şekip Can Gökalp is the founding partner of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network. Gokalp's previous experience includes his time as a regional business development manager of Netlog and a part-time interactive marketing lecturer. He also contributes regularly to publications related to his field.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Banking
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.

Torsten Reil is Co Founder and CEO at Helsing. He holds a BA in Biology from Oxford University and an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from Sussex University. Prior to founding NaturalMotion, Torsten was researching for a PhD in Complex Systems at Oxford University’s Zoology department, from which he spun off NaturalMotion.Torsten hasbeen named amongst MIT’s TR100 global top innovators, Next-Gen’s 25 People in the Games Industry, and Develop magazine’s 25 Game Changers.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
Tacto — Tacto develops an intuitive, data-driven, and automated solution for procurement in medium-sized industrial enterprises. The AI-based software gives customers a transparent overview of their procurement activities, algorithmically highlights risk & savings potential, and automates all transactional workflows in sourcing and supplier managementto focus on what matters. With Tacto customers can focus on strategic work, leverage savings potential, and reduce complexity - without the need for costly IT resources.

Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.

Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.

Co-Founder and Co-CEO Responsible for EMEA & APAC, global operations, finance, HR and the overall direction for Celonis.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, France, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.
DataGuard — Are you looking to turn your privacy posture into a competitive advantage? Stay fully compliant with latest data privacy regulations. Talk to an expert now
Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.

Lars Hinrichs first logged onto the internet in 1989 with an acoustic coupler and hasn't logged off since. This early passion for all things digital kick-started his entrepreneurial streak that remains strong today.One of his first efforts, politik-digital.de, was an award-winning platform for politics and new media he launched at 22.Following that early success, his next venture, a respected new media consulting firm, went bust -- but not without first paying rich dividends in learning.Lars applied those learnings to his third major effort, XING, a highly successful business networking platform. As Founder and CEO, Lars oversaw its 2006 IPO, making XING the world's first Web 2.0 company to go public. He then successfully steered it for two years post IPO, beating all predicted indices and developing a regrettable taste for high calorie energy drinks. He also became active in investing in -- and helping secure funding for -- a wide range of tech startups, proving his instinct for great talent and game-changing ideas.When heâ's not working on his fourth (and most exciting) start-up yet, Lars can be found advising on the Global Leaders of World Economic Forum, the Young Global Leaders, and helping Germany with their digital strategy as part of the UNICEF council.He also looks back fondly on his ten days of official learning at Harvard Kennedy School - John F. Kennedy School of Government and his countless days of unofficial learning as an enthusiastic TEDster.And in those welcome moments when he is offline, Lars enjoys being regularly humbled and awed by his two wonderful children.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Enterprise Software
Series A, Seed, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

doo — doo is an event management platform. They believe, in a world where online marketing is overdosing individuals, face-to-face events are more important than ever. That is why, the focus of events must be on building and deepening relationships with your customers. Their utmost goal at doo is to manage your attendees through the entire attendeejourney and allow you to personally engage with the right attendees at the right time with the right content. Only then can you present a memorable and personalized event experience for all of your customers and prospects, whatever they may seek from the event.
Planetly — Planetly is building the software to analyze, reduce and offset your carbon footprint. They believe in transparency & action to fight the climate crisis. Therefore we made it our mission to build the tools for the economy to step up to their responsibility! With our software you analyze the footprint of your organization based on your realdata, you find where you can reduce it in the most pragmatic way and you offset the rest.
Enfore — EnFour is a business platform paired with a collection of versatile, easy to use apps that run on smartphones, tablets and personal computers. It was founded in 2009 by Marco Boerries. Enfour's solution creates a level playing field by giving small businesses instant access to the tools, capabilities insights normally only available to largercompanies. Their goal is to provide the majority of small businesses around the world with similar efficiencies and scale effects to those that large enterprises possess. They founded enfore to re-imagine how these businesses utilize technology and to enable them to stay competitive in a connected world. By combining innovative hardware, powerful and easy to use software as well as comprehensive services, enfore delivers an amazing solution to connect all business aspects.

CTO//Investor//Whisperer to Leading Enterprise Companies Exits Acopia Networks, Mimosa Systems, Integrien, Cyvera, Librato, Caspida, BlueBox Security, Nodeprime, APIGEE, SkyHigh, Solinea, Cask, Zscaler (TPG-IPO), Anaplan (IPO)

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, PaaS
Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hakimo — Hakimo automatically resolves false alarms so that your existing GSOC operators can handle more alarms as your company grows.
Steadybit — Steadybit is a Chaos and Resilience Engineering platform that helps to proactively reduce downtime and provide visibility into systems to detect issues.
TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.

Richard Socher is the Chief Scientist at Salesforce where he leads teams working on fundamental research (deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, speech and recommendation), applied research, product incubation and building a cross-product AI platform. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at Stanford's computer sciencedepartment and the founder and CEO/CTO of MetaMind which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016. In 2014, he got his PhD in the CS Department at Stanford. He likes paramotor and water adventures, traveling and photography.He was awarded the Distinguished Application Paper Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2011, the 2011 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award, a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship in 2012 and a 2013 "Magic Grant" from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the 2014 GigaOM Structure Award.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ZenML — ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. Built for data scientists, it has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud- and tool-agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. At its core, ZenML pipelines execute ML-specific workflows from sourcing data to splitting, preprocessing, training, all the way to the evaluation of results and even serving. There are many built-in batteries to support common ML development tasks. ZenML is not here to replace the great tools that solve these individual problems. Rather, it offers an extensible framework and a standard abstraction to write and build your workflows.
Viva Translate — Save time on meeting summaries, transcriptions and translations with Viva Translate.
Ambience Healthcare — Experience what it feels like to never have to type or dictate another note again.

Patrick is the CEO & Co-Founder of HomeToGo, an independent vacation rental metasearch engine .Previously, he was a Director of Business Development in Home24. He also worked for German Embassy in Dublin, Hogan Lovells and Rocket Internet. Patrick has a law background and holds PhD in Business Law from University of Muenster.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Increase your sales efficiency by 65% with Xaver. Enhance productivity and unlock more time for customers using our specialised AI-driven sales solutions tailored for the financial sector, ensuring every agent becomes a high-achieving expert.
Montamo — Montamo trains lateral entrants with standardized methods. We rely on both our on-site academy and our digital learning software.
Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.

Victor Jacobsson is an Independent Advisor to startups and Investors.As an entrepreneur victor co-founded Victor has a masters degree from the

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Payments, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
hakuna — Integrate the right protection for all kinds of products directly into your online shop. Make your customers happy and benefit from additional revenue at the same time!

Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Arcjet — Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks.
Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
Graneet — Graneet is a Digital Site Manager Assistant that is designed to help Construction Project Managers better track the financials and administrative processes of their projects (invoices, expenses, payments...).

Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Montamo — Montamo trains lateral entrants with standardized methods. We rely on both our on-site academy and our digital learning software.
Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.

Mr. Mostafa Akbari serves as President and Founder of HoloBuilder Inc. Mr. Akbari serves as Managing Director of bitstars GmbH. He started developing AR-Applications for Mac and PC. He contributes experience with start-ups as well as his network from the Web 2.0 and founding scene. Additionally he offers a wealth of experience regardingMultichannel-Marketing and Social Media. His knowledge from researching eLearning and Mobile Media were applied

Investment focus

Software, Construction, Enterprise Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

RIIICO — RIIICO is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of software and artificial intelligence.
specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.

Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

clous — Hybrid automated mechanical engineering
Alphadoc — Interactive documentation that converts. Explain APIs and SDKs in a single environment. Keep your docs in sync, reuse content, powerful AI, and more
comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.

D. Sculley

Investment focus

Software, Open Source, Fraud Detection
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

ZenML — ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. Built for data scientists, it has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud- and tool-agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. At its core, ZenML pipelines execute ML-specific workflows from sourcing data to splitting, preprocessing, training, all the way to the evaluation of results and even serving. There are many built-in batteries to support common ML development tasks. ZenML is not here to replace the great tools that solve these individual problems. Rather, it offers an extensible framework and a standard abstraction to write and build your workflows.

Luke de Oliveira

Investment focus

Software, Open Source, Fraud Detection
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

ZenML — ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. Built for data scientists, it has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud- and tool-agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. At its core, ZenML pipelines execute ML-specific workflows from sourcing data to splitting, preprocessing, training, all the way to the evaluation of results and even serving. There are many built-in batteries to support common ML development tasks. ZenML is not here to replace the great tools that solve these individual problems. Rather, it offers an extensible framework and a standard abstraction to write and build your workflows.

Constanze Buchheim is a pioneering entrepreneur in Germany's digital economy and is regarded as a thought leader on the subject of "future leadership“ with a focus on building intrapreneurial cultures. For 15 years, she has been building and transforming digital teams in the new & old economy. In 2009, after having experienced thehypergrowth of spreadshirt and understanding that there is no market solution for companies in scale up situations, she founded the executive search consultancy i-potentials as an entrepreneur for entrepreneurs. As an advisory board member, angel investor and sparring partner, she prepares serial entrepreneurs and boards for the strategic challenges of future-proof leadership, recruiting and organizational and cultural architecture. In 2015, the Boston Consulting Group and "Manager Magazin" named her one of the 50 most influential women in German business. In 2020, she was selected by Focus magazine as one of the 100 Women of the Year.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Advertising
Angel, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
Morphais VC —

I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

DGG — RapidCompact by DGG is the leading solution to make 3D content fit all target platforms, freeing up each creative team's' time by automating the creation of high-quality, optimized 3D assets for Web, mobile, AR and XR use. Customers include retailers, public institutions, tech companies, XR studios, and more.
PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
Growblocks — Growblocks builds your full SaaS bowtie - letting you see your full funnel, plan & monitor performance across your Go-To-Market engine.

Born in Philadelphia (USA), Andy Goldstein started his first European venture about 25 years ago after having finished his studies with a Bachelor of Science Degree and a double major in Entrepreneurial Management & International Business, graduating in May 1983 from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. In the sameyear, he founded North American Software in Vienna (Austria) and began publishing US software in Europe.In 1996, Andy created a new organization, MediaGold Software Publishing Group, targeting Europeâ€™s biggest software markets - Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the UK and France - with localized consumer software. MediaGold had more than 30 employees and over â‚¬7m revenue annually when it was taken over by the French software corporation BVRP in 2003 and renamed to Avanquest Deutschland.Andy is a member of Avanquest Softwareâ€™s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. As European COO, he leads Avanquestâ€™s European software business and is responsible for acquisitions of new developers and partners.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
Seed
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
CRUX Knowledge — Crux quantifies knowledge. Crux empowers content providers to rise above information overload and engage users in exciting new ways.

Benjamin Rohé works as a Managing Director and Founder at GTEC.Benjamin Rohé , an entrepreneur who co-founded a public company amongst other startups and worked in the tech, renewable energy, digital space since 1997. He started his first company at the age of 17.Benjamin has been investing time and money into startups throughout Europesince 2007. He has given talks and lectures at different european universities as well as at various european startup and economic conferences. Those include the Economic Forum, Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Maastricht University, Center for Digital Technology & Management (Munich), European School of Management and Technology (Berlin) and the Zeppelin University where he also helped to create a investment fund for startups at the same university.In 2011 his business angel investment activities became more structured by forming angelfund.vc and bringing in a advisory board of industry experts. Benjamin also served as a Partner in the Venture Capital Funds of Redalpine Venture Partners AG in Switzerland. He is a accredited investor by the European Investment Fund (EIF - EAF).He co-authored with Gütt Olk Feldhaus Rechtsanwälte “Angel syndicates: Efficient investment in startups with syndication and sub-share agreements” for the Book "Guide for Business Angels" published by the Business Angel Network Germany and GoingPublic Media AG in December 2012.Since January 2015, Benjamin is heading the German Tech Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC) in Berlin. Founding Partners include European School of Management and Technology, Noerr LLP, RWE, Henkel and 2 foundations.

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

parlamind — parlamind is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Customer Service. Based on latest research in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning as well as state of the art cloud software the parlamind team is building an AI of the next generation. parlamind will analyse, route, and autonomously answer incoming customer communication, and thus worksseamlessly together with its human counterparts as a member in the customer service team. parlamind was founded in August 2015 by Dr. Tina Klüwer, Christian Wolf, Dr. Núria Bertomeu Castelló and Tobias Lehmann. The founders combine their experience from E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, and AI-Research from leading companies and research facilities like wirkaufens.de, German Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) and Searchmetrics.
Customer Alliance — Ditch complex workflows & boring spreadsheets. Embrace efficiency with one platform for customer reviews, surveys, and satisfaction metrics.

Gary Hromadko - Venture Partner @ Crosslink Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series C, Series D, Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tabula — Tabula, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, develops programmable logic devices for programmable logic, memory, and signal processing applications. It offers 3-D programmable logic devices that support a portfolio of soft IP cores, including DDR2 and DDR3 memory controllers, PCI Express, gigabit and 10 gigabit Ethernet, soft CPUs, sRIO, CPRI,and OBSAI; and Spacetime, a programmable logic architecture that reconfigures logic, memory, and interconnect at multi-GHz rates. Tabula, Inc. was formerly known as Everychip, Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
Databox — Analytics software that helps you centralize your data, automate reporting, make better decisions, and improve your performance. Try it free!
Scriptics — Scriptics is a developer of business integration tools.

Georg Hofer

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Automotive
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

BOX ID Systems — BOX ID Systems develops and offers an end-to-end location & process mining solution to cost effectively track millions of logistics assets digitally throughout the industrial supply chain across Europe and the World - including site-to-site, on-premises and indoor buildings digital twin of supply chain processes. The system is built on aspecialized analytics software platform, sensorik tracking devices and efficient data-, device- and user-management tools, including functions to support process automation and optimization. Industrial and automotive production customers benefit from making their logistics processes more efficient and cost optimized, with 100% transparency within their critical processes throughout the entire supply chain.

Florian Reike is the Co-Founder at Advanced Blockchain AG.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Abel — Abel is a technology platform that helps you lend to your business customers, capable of full automation and underpinned by the latest in risk intelligence. Our digital service automates origination, credit decisioning, loan servicing and ongoing risk monitoring front-to-back.
Forest Park — Your modern operating system for institutional lending, in T+1.
Unblock — Unblock is building a free, white-labelled, instant and local on and off-ramp to stable cryptocurrencies.

Nelson Holzner is CEO and Co-Founder of MODIFI, a Fintech company solving global Trade Finance for small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to founding MODIFI, Nelson was CEO of AEVI, a German-based Fintech company providing an open B2B marketplace for business apps, SmartPOS devices and payment solutions to banks and acquires around the globe.Prior to joining AEVI, Nelson was founder and CEO of BillPay, a leading provider of payment by invoice or installments for e-commerce which was acquired by Klarna in 2017. He was Vice President at Cerberus Capital Management, an international investment firm. Nelson started his career as a lawyer at an international law firm. He is an active business angel in FinTech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Banking, Big Data
Seed
India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!

Janis Zech is the Founder and CEO at Weflow.

Investment focus

B2B, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
JOBOX.ai — JOBOX.ai is a B2B stealth mode AI startup disrupting the on-demand economy.
Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.

Jan Dzulko is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Everphone. He previously worked at M Cube Incubator as a Chief Executive Officer. Jan Dzulko attended the University of Mannheim.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, Online Portals
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

emplu — 360° benefit and compensation platform
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Workbee — Workbee is a job platform focused on care workers. The aim of Workbee is to find a better job for carers and to make the caring profession more attractive. The core product is recruiting-as-a-service: employers book a subscription and receive a recruiting flat rate.

Dirk Hoke is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Airbus Defence and Space as of 1 April 2016. He started on 1 January as Deputy CEO. He is a member of the Airbus Group Executive Committee. Dirk Hoke joined Airbus Group from Siemens, where he had been CEO of the Large Drives Business Unit since 2014. He has held various executive-level positionsat Siemens since becoming CEO of the Cluster Western & Central Africa in 2008. His career spans 21 years and five continents. In 1994, Dirk Hoke began his professional career as R&D Engineer for process and software analysis in the automotive industry at Renault in Paris. In 1996, he joined Siemens through an international trainee programme with assignments in Germany, Argentina and Austria. He then held various management posts in the Transportation Systems Division based in Germany. He relocated to Sacramento, USA, as Head of the Transportation Systems restructuring team in 2001. Dirk Hoke continued his professional career at Siemens as General Manager for the Transrapid Propulsion and Power Supply Subdivision from 2002 to 2005 including the Shanghai “Maglev” project. He was then promoted to President of Siemens Transportation Systems China and made Siemens the largest foreign railway supplier in the country. In 2008, Dirk Hoke moved to Morocco to lead Siemens’ Africa activities. He returned to Germany in 2011 to become the Division CEO of Industrial Solutions with the special task to build up the services business for the Industry Sector. Afterwards, he was called upon to restructure the Large Drives Business Unit. Dirk Hoke holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Brunswick, Germany. In 2010, Dirk Hoke became a member of the Young Global Leader Class of the World Economic Forum and in 2013, member of the Baden Baden Entrepreneur Talks. Born on 2 April 1969, Dirk Hoke is married with two children

Investment focus

Software, Open Source, Fraud Detection
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

ZenML — ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. Built for data scientists, it has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud- and tool-agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. At its core, ZenML pipelines execute ML-specific workflows from sourcing data to splitting, preprocessing, training, all the way to the evaluation of results and even serving. There are many built-in batteries to support common ML development tasks. ZenML is not here to replace the great tools that solve these individual problems. Rather, it offers an extensible framework and a standard abstraction to write and build your workflows.

Olivier Pomel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datadog. Prior to founding Datadog, Olivier Pomel built data systems for K-12 teachers as a VP, Technology for Wireless Generation, growing the development team from a handful to close to 100 of the best engineers in NYC until the company’s acquisition by News Corp. Before Wireless Generation, Olivier heldsoftware engineering positions at IBM Research and several internet startups. Olivier is an original author of the VLC media player and holds an MS, CS from the Ecole Centrale Paris.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
CodeRabbit — AI-first pull request reviewer with context-aware feedback, line-by-line code suggestions, and real-time chat.
Restate — Restate build workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await.

Philipp was an unsuccessful gym goer and decided to found eGym in 2010 with the vision to make the gym work for everyone. Prior, he studied Business and Technology Management at Columbia University in New York, LMU Munich and Aarhus University. eGym combines latest machine technology, powered by German engineering, with the advantages of connectedmobile applications to deliver intuitive and effective workouts with more fun and data-driven member support. In addition eGym also supports Corporate Fitness offering easier access to gyms for employees in order to stay fitter, be more productive and less absent. In only a few years of strong growth, eGym developed to one of the major players in the European fitness market, implementing its technology at leading fitness chains and franchises. Overall, eGym raised over 90 Mio. USD in venture capital from large investors and is now entering the US market.

Investment focus

SaaS, Pet, Apps
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Demodesk — Demodesk is the sales meeting platform that coaches reps live and automates non-selling tasks.Try for free and see why top revenue teams use Demodesk to boost productivity and increase close rates
Personio — Personio is an all-in-one HR software solution for companies from 10-2,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Rex — Veterinary practices you always wanted

Ulrich Mueller-Menrad

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Automotive
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

BOX ID Systems — BOX ID Systems develops and offers an end-to-end location & process mining solution to cost effectively track millions of logistics assets digitally throughout the industrial supply chain across Europe and the World - including site-to-site, on-premises and indoor buildings digital twin of supply chain processes. The system is built on aspecialized analytics software platform, sensorik tracking devices and efficient data-, device- and user-management tools, including functions to support process automation and optimization. Industrial and automotive production customers benefit from making their logistics processes more efficient and cost optimized, with 100% transparency within their critical processes throughout the entire supply chain.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

Ragnar Kruse is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Smaato Inc. As a serial entrepreneur with 30+ years experience in IT, Ragnar Kruse understands the unique challenges in bringing new technologies to market. Ragnar has built up several companies from inception to market launch in both the US and Europe. At Intershop Communications, aleader in E-Commerce software solutions, Ragnar was Vice President of Sales and Marketing in San Francisco. During his tenure, Ragnar was instrumental in the company’s growth and ushering it through a successful IPO on NASDAQ and the “Neuer Markt” in 1998. More recently, Ragnar held key management positions at high-tech companies in the U.S. and Europe including eCharge and Xtramind. Through his many years in IT, Ragnar maintains strong relationships with companies in the telecommunications and mobile sectors, including Deutsche Telekom, Telekom New Zealand, Telstra, Telia, Cable & Wireless, Siemens, T-Online, T-Mobile, France Telecom, HP and SUN. Ragnar started his career as an entrepreneur. In 1980, Ragnar founded IPT GmbH, a computer retail business that imported products into Germany from the USA and Taiwan. In 1987 he expanded his business by starting DTP Partner GmbH, a distribution company in Hamburg. DTP Partner was the exclusive distributor of several desktop publishing solutions such as Corel and was instrumental in establishing international distribution agreements with American and Taiwanese companies. Ragnar studied law at the universities of Hamburg and Munich, Germany.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, B2B, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
Frontnow — Frontnow is redefining e-commerce with AI, providing businesses with powerful pre-sales tools to maximize core KPIs and provide an in-store-like shopping experience. Our vision is to transform online shopping into a dynamic, hyper-personalized, and inspirational experience through an adaptive interface. By revolutionizing the ecosystem, theyempower businesses to thrive in the digital age and significantly impact the way customers shop online, leading to a more profitable and customer-centric retail world.
aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.

Torben Schreiter Co-Founded Signavio GmbH in 2009 and serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer. Schreiter is responsible for Signavio’s operations, partner sales, finances and HR. He worked as business process management consultant. He worked for SAP Australia and inubit. He holds a MSc in Software Engineering.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Chemical Engineering
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

l1r1 — Developing heylara.de the first Conversation Business Automation (CBA) solution
unea — Everything you need to level up your retail media and trade marketing business - from consulting, workshops to leading software -
Cozero — Cozero's carbon accounting and climate management solutions help enterprises streamline their sustainability efforts. Start making an impact today with Cozero's ClimateTech.

Andreas Bodczek is passionate tech entrepreneur, seasoned board room executive, global mindset. Backing fellow entrepreneurs as active early-stage tech investor, and Point Nine Capital board partner. Co-founded, scaled and sold Fyber. Former CEO of Telefónica Deutschland, MD of Telefónica UK, member of Bertelsmann’s junior managementprogram.Excited about bold ideas in mobility, digital health, blockchain beyond crypto currencies.Interested in private equity operating partner assignments, management buy-in/buy-out scenarios, buy-and-build strategies, tech distress/transformation opportunities.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.

Ali Kutay is a successful serial entrepreneur, executive and investor with 35 years of experience. Before founding Striim, Inc., Ali was the Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software, the leading infrastructure software company for high availability, that was acquired by Oracle. Previously, Ali was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb,Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. He was an angel investor, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., the company that pioneered the Application Server technology which became one of the major building blocks of web-enabled applications. WebLogic merged with BEA Systems, Inc. and was acquired by Oracle in 2007. He was the President and CEO of Formtek, one of the first enterprise infrastructure software firms, founded in 1984 as a Carnegie-Mellon University spin-off and was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. He ran Formtek as its CEO under Lockheed Martin for 7 years. He serves on the boards of public and private companies and advises startups. Ali completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Middle East Technical University and his PhD work at Carnegie Mellon University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HiveMQ — HiveMQ is the proven enterprise MQTT platform designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data under real-world stress. Learn more.
REscan — Transforming spaces into data
Medallia Strikedeck — Strikedeck is the most powerful and comprehensive Customer Success solution, enabling businesses to reduce churn, drive customer trust and loyalty, and maximize revenue through innovative automation and integration technologies. Founded by marketing automation pioneers, our propriety SaaS solution empowers our customers to achieve retention,expansion, and advocacy in their customer base.Strikedeck takes a fresh approach to increasing customer engagement with workflow automation, machine learning, predictive analytics, usage tracking, surveys, and swift personalization. Our customers benefit from a real-time 360° view from the Strikedeck platform. At Strikedeck, we are committed to our customers’ success - we celebrate their achievements and respond quickly to their feedback. Strikedeck has been backed by leading tech entrepreneurs and innovators.Strikedeck develops a platform that enables businesses to integrate, manage, and obtain insights about their business processes and customer data. It also offers analytics and insights about customer satisfaction by deriving information from usage, support, billing, contracts, and CRM. Furthermore, it provides tools that enable its users to schedule and automate QBRs, customer meetings, tasks, projects, on-boarding, milestones, and events on a calendar.Strikedeck offers its customers with tools to integrate with Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, Desk, Marketo, Freshdesk, Acton, and more. The company also provides email templates and other tools for their customers’ marketing campaigns.Strikedeck was founded in 2015 by Shabd Vaid and Shreesha Ramdas. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Patrice Deckert - Venture Partner @ Heilemann Ventures

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Content
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
Tidy — Turn your browser into a second brain. Be 20x faster at finding the docs and people that make your work better

Heinz Raufer

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Secfix — Secfix helps companies get secure and compliant in weeks instead of months. We are on a mission to automate security and compliance for small and medium-sized businesses.We help SMEs to build their own ISMS and automate security standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, TISAX, BSI Grundschutz, GDPR, HIPAA, DiGA. Additionally, we have a pool of trustedand verified auditors and ethical hacking companies from Europe that offer pentest for-Web platforms -Mobile applications -IoT – Connected devices -Infrastructure & network -Social engineering -Information systemWe guarantee security and top-notch penetration testers only.
ShopVibes — We're building a connected world of e-commerce where everyone can easily present their products on any channel. Join now to get ahead of your competition!
ValueWorks.ai — ValueWorks - the intelligent operating system for executives. Our mission is simple. We enable executives to leverage all of their company's data to perform management tasks in a data-driven manner by integrating their key software systems.

Daniel I. Rubin joined Alloy Ventures in 1999 after a 15-year career in business development, marketing and sales at leading technology companies. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in semiconductors, cleantech, and software-as-a-service. Before becoming a venture capitalist in 1999, Dan was a successful technology entrepreneur and alsoheld a variety of executive-level sales, marketing and business development jobs in the IT industry. In 1991, he was a co-founder of Artisan Components and served as the initial VP of sales and marketing. He was the VP of business development through the company's initial public offering in 1998.The company was later acquired by ARM Ltd. for $1 billion.Prior to Artisan Components, Dan worked at semiconductor capital equipment company Ultratech Stepper in many roles, including director of product marketing and managing director of Asian operations. He received a BA in Physics from Pomona College (1982).Dan serves on the board of directors of CiraNova, Ensenda, Molecular Imprints, Gradient Design Automation, Integrated Materials,Teradici, IPExtreme, and Integrated PhotoVoltaics. He is a board observer at Ellie Mae.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

amberSearch (used to be ambeRoad) — Find internal information without having to ask your colleagues first. Spend your time on value-adding tasks instead of frustrating tasks like internal searching, asking around or unnecessary duplication.
Ensenda — Local delivery companies do everything in a supply chain’s “last mile,” from installing appliances to delivering critical parts within an hour of ordering. Local delivery is a $46 billion industry and typically accounts for 28% of a company's transportation spend, yet most companies overlook this critical step in the supply chain despite thefact that customer loyalty and sales are closely tied to the delivery experience.Ensenda is the leading third party logistics provider (3PL) for the local delivery industry. Ensenda’ network of local carriers provides a wide range of local delivery programs in every market in the US and Canada
Scifiniti — Scifiniti is an early stage company working to create a drop-in replacement for crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells. Rather than casting an ingot of polysilicon and then sawing it into wafers (to be processed into solar cells), Scifiniti's approach skips these steps and creates a wafer directly (although we can't say how) with a highquality crystal structure suitable for solar cells.

Klaus Hommels is Founder of Lakestar. Lakestar invests in European as well as U.S. companies that show fast international growth. Klaus has been involved in the early days of investments such as Skype, Xing, King, Facebook, Spotify and Airbnb. More recent investments include online men's grooming business Harry's, GoEuro, Opendoor andFiveAI. Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann, before joining AOL Germany in 1995 as a Board Member. He was also a venture partner of Benchmark Capital Europe. He earned his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was ranked as one of the top Europe-based venture capital investors in the global Midas List 2013, 2014 and 2015 and just became third best European investor in the first European list of the same ranking. Lakestar is the leading European VC with a true global presence with offices in Zurich, Berlin and London as well as satellites in New York and Hong Kong. Klaus has a strong voice in the European Tech Ecosystems which he supports passionately with various initiatives, eg. the 'Internet Foundation'.Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann, before joining AOL Germany in 1995 as a Board Member. He was also a venture partner of Benchmark Capital Europe. He earned his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was ranked as one of the top Europe-based venture capital investors in the global Midas List 2013, 2014 and 2015 and just became third best European investor in the first European list of the same ranking. Lakestar is the leading European VC with a true global presence with offices in Zurich, Berlin and London as well as satellites in New York and Hong Kong. Klaus has a strong voice in the European Tech Ecosystems which he supports passionately with various initiatives, eg. the 'Internet Foundation'.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, News
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany, Sweden, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Enfore — EnFour is a business platform paired with a collection of versatile, easy to use apps that run on smartphones, tablets and personal computers. It was founded in 2009 by Marco Boerries. Enfour's solution creates a level playing field by giving small businesses instant access to the tools, capabilities insights normally only available to largercompanies. Their goal is to provide the majority of small businesses around the world with similar efficiencies and scale effects to those that large enterprises possess. They founded enfore to re-imagine how these businesses utilize technology and to enable them to stay competitive in a connected world. By combining innovative hardware, powerful and easy to use software as well as comprehensive services, enfore delivers an amazing solution to connect all business aspects.
Citra Style — Citra Style designs and produces fashion for Muslim Women that follows contemporary runway and mainstream trends. Products are available both online and offline across the globe, with strong footprint in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany. The quality of merchandise is considered best in the segment.Citra Style’s fashion experts combinefashion items to looks which are made available online in a distinguished “Shop-By-Look” feature to inspire online shoppers.The team consists of Western born/raised Muslims with extensive fashion and ecommerce experience. Citra Style has a solid investor base that will help grow the company into a Multi 100 million USD business.
Factory Berlin — Factory Berlin is the strongest innovation network in Europe: a curated community of 3500+ creators from the world of startups, tech, and corporates.

Alexander Rinke Co-CEO and Co-founder Celonis Alexander Rinke is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Celonis, the leader in the leader in turning process insights into action for business transformation. Under his leadership Celonis has been named by Gartner as the “clear market leader” in the process mining category, as well as becoming one of thefastest growing enterprise software companies and one of only 242 “unicorns” in the world valued at $1B. Alexander was listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 list of top achievers under the age of 30 in 2015 and was recently appointed to the Forbes Technology Council. He is a frequent speaker on topics of how to accelerate and operational change that achieves productivity and an exceptional customer experience. Alexander studied Mathematics at Technical University of Munich and École Polytechnique in Paris.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, SaaS, Robotics
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rasa — Build contextual AI assistants and chatbots in text and voice with our open source machine learning framework. Scale it with our enterprise grade platform.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Wandelbots — We make robots usable for everyone. Learn how our easy-to-use software solutions can empower your organization to work with robots.

Frank Freund is CFO & founder at SavingGlobal.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
Next Matter — Next Matter enables teams to digitize their complex, manual business processes within hours, and realize substantial performance improvements within days. No code, consultants, or IT project management required. Our customers - like HelloFresh and Home24 - design and deploy high-value, end-to-end business processes at a fraction of the time andcost required for typical enterprise-grade solutions. And we’re covering a growing number of teams and use cases across businesses including operations, finance, HR, procurement, logistics, and supplier management.Take the lead on digitization today. Find out how you can use Next Matter to transform your business at https://nextmatter.com.

Pehong Chen is the Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President & Chief Executive Officer of BroadVision.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series B, Angel
United States, Taiwan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tresl — Segments by Tresl is a self-guided data analytics platform that helps you build long-lasting customer relationships.
Rosetta.ai — By converting user engagements into detailed profiles, Rosetta.ai helps brands to establish a strategic CRM system for improved customer experiences and long-term profitability.
FreeDecision — FreeDecision offers instant credit solutions to financial institutions and merchants.

Marc Rindermann

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Flexperto — Flexperto is the Communication Cloud for more efficient sales. Everything that salespersons have done so far offline, is now also possible online with Flexperto. Schedule appointments, clarify questions in the video chat, view documents together, sign contracts or say hi to customers on WhatsApp. And thanks to CRM integration, the entirecustomer dialogue is centrally documented.Flexperto is operating a SaaS model and has experienced rapid growth in the past 3 years. It's customers are primarily large international enterprises in the insurance and financial industry. Our currently 30 employees are working mainly in the headquarter in Berlin.

CEO at Dash0 Angel Investor at New Forge

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

AQUATY — The AQUATY platform equips investors and innovators with the essential tools for hassle-free investment transactions and operations in private capital markets.
Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
Edgeless Systems — Industry-leading solutions for confidential computing. Our products are open source and work across clouds. They are intuitive to use for DevOps and Engineering Teams.

Jan Bohl is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in Berlin. Jan Bohl graduated in business administration from both ESCP Paris and Technical University of Berlin. He started his career as a management consultant in the media practice group with PricewaterhouseCoopers.Since 2000 he is co-owner and CFO/COO of Ableton, an internationallyrenowned maker of music software having offices in Berlin and Los Angeles. Since Abletons foundation more than 1.7 million musicians, DJs, sound designers have used one of Ableton’s software programs. Ableton has been nominated several times in the German Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte in which the fastest growing technology companies are listed in. Jan built up the commercial organization of Ableton and has successfully lead this division since 2000. Next to the established software business Ableton released its first hardware product called PUSH in March 2013. With entering the hardware market Ableton expects to significantly increases its market share in the computer based music production market in the coming years.Besides his role within Ableton Jan Bohl has been a mentor and coach to founders and managers of start up businesses especially in the area of technology/Internet. Jan is an active business angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, GreenTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany

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mixd.tv —
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Tamaz Georgadze As CEO he leads Raisin and takes in particular care of partner bank acquisition, business development, legal and regional expansion efforts. Prior to building and scaling Raisin, Tamaz has spent 10 years with McKinsey & Company, the last 3 years as Principal leading also McKinsey Savings and Investment products Service Line forEMEA countries. He served some of the very largest retail, universal and wholesale banks throughout Europe and in Asia. Tamaz holds a PhD in agricultural economics, graduated with honors in law (both from University of Giessen) and international economics (from Tbilisi State University).

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Philippines, The Netherlands

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8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
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